As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a ... Credit: NASA If it all sounds very complicated, that’s because it is. This method of deployment requires the cooperation ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

At least, that's what planetary scientists who have discovered 266 lunar "wrinkle ridges," say, as all of ... on the moon for ...

If all goes to plan, Athena will land on a plateau just 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole ... hop down into a permanently shadowed crater." That target crater, known as ...